Killed by an impaired driver.
If you think impaired driving isn't your problem or doesn't concern you, think again. If it could happen to me, it could happen to you. Maybe the next death or injuries sustained will be someone you love…or YOU! Read on and take action to make a change!
Impaired driving is the leading criminal cause of death in Canada. You've heard the numbers. On average, every single day 4 Canadians die on our roads and 174 are injured in impairment-related crashes. That's almost 1500 deaths and over 63,000 injured every year.
Look around you. Chances are someone you know has been affected by impaired driving. Maybe you've lost a loved one or been injured yourself or maybe you know someone who's lost a loved one or been injured. If you don't…sadly, if nothing changes, one day you will.
One Canadian life could be saved each and every single day (that's 250 lives and over 12,000 injuries saved each year) if the Canadian government implemented Random Breath Testing (Source: MADD Canada). Nearly two years ago, I wrote a blog post about the need to bring random breath testing (RBT) to Canada and I am sad to report that this life saving measure is still. not. in. place.
Why does Canada need RBT?
If you think that Canadian police already have the power to just "demand" you submit to a breathalyzer, you couldn't be further from the truth! As the law stands now, police can only demand a roadside breath sample if they have reasonable grounds (smell alcohol, bloodshot eyes, slurred speech etc) to suspect the driver has been drinking. This makes investigation and prosecution more complicated than you can imagine. As a result, millions of Canadians continue to drink and drive, in part, because the likelihood of ever being stopped or charged is low.
In fact, MADD Canada data indicates a person would have to drive impaired, on average, once a week, every week, for more than 3 years before being charged with impaired driving offence, and for more than 6 years before being convicted.
Random breath testing would authorize the police to demand breath samples from all drivers pulled over at checkpoints, greatly increasing the number of drivers screened and thus increasing the deterrent impact of our impaired driving laws. Source: MADD Canada.
International success speaks for itself!
In Queensland, Australia, random breath testing was estimated to have reduced total fatal crashes by 35% between 1988 and 1992, preventing an estimated 789 fatal crashes.
New South Wales' random breath testing program was estimated to have prevented 522 serious crashes, 204 fatal crashes and 686 single-vehicle night-time crashes in its first year.
In Ireland, the introduction of random breath testing in 2006 reduced total annual road fatalities by 19% from the previous year.
MADD has researched RBT to prove that the majority of Canadians support it and that IT IS constitutionally sound. As well, they did an analysis of the impact of implementing RBT on the criminal justice system's resources and were able to prove that RBT will not only save hundreds of lives and prevent tens of thousands of injuries, it will also reduce the social costs of impaired driving by billions of dollars annually. Visit the MADD Canada RBT page (about half way down) to peruse and read all the extensive research that backs RBT up.
MADD Canada's CEO and national staff along with hundreds of volunteers have been working tirelessly advocating for RBT. They've marched. They've met. They've written.
But…MADD Canada, its staff and volunteers are tenacious people. You've never seen a group of more committed and determined folks. They are seriously intense and impassioned to see RBT implemented in Canada; no matter how long or what it takes. The government can run and it can try to hide but these peeps won't stop until their mission is met!
Canadian government, if you are reading…resistance is futile my friend. Make it happen already.
This October, MADD Canada will be hard at it again; meeting with key ministerial officials advocating once again for changes criminal code to implement RBT. And they need OUR help to make this happen. We have to have their backs, people!
I'll include some samples you can use below.
Write: your Member of Parliament (you can find a list here) now….and periodically…and let him or her know your wishes to see RBT in Canada. Encourage him or her to raise the issue with colleagues in Parliament and to ask Justice Minister Rob Nicholson to introduce random breath testing legislation. Ask that he/she address this now…not in a year or two when 1500 to 3000 more lives are lost. You can write your own letter or adapt this MP Template Letter (Word document). Mail may be sent postage-free to any Member of Parliament.
Email: your thoughts or even attach your own letter or adapt this MP Template Letter (Word document) to your MP. Email forward this post to all your Canadian friends and family and ask them to join you in supporting RBT by reaching out to their MP!
Tweet: your MP often that this is something you want to see he/she support. Let your followers know that this is something you are doing and ask them to join you in the call to action!
Facebook: "friend" your MP and post on his/her wall that you'd like he/she to support RBT. Make your wishes known. Let your friends know that this is something you are doing and ask them to join you in the call to action.
As a citizen in your riding, I have attached a letter asking you to make your colleagues in Parliament aware of random breath testing, an important anti-impaired driving measure. I would like you to ask the Justice Committee and the Government of Canada to implement random breath testing in Canada.
I ask you – what would do if it was your daughter, mother, mother-in-law that was killed by a drunk driver – a 100% PREVENTABLE death?
I am writing to you today to bring the very serious matter of impaired driving to your attention.
Every year, hundreds of Canadians are killed and tens of thousands are injured in impaired driving crashes on our roads and highways. Even with provincial and territorial administrative laws, enforcement programs, and awareness and education campaigns, impaired driving is still causing carnage on our roads. Something more needs to be done.
MADD Canada is calling on the Government of Canada to introduce random breath testing, a roadside screening test to detect impaired driving. This measure has been introduced in many other countries, with significant results. Random breath testing deters people from getting behind the wheel because the chances of them being caught are much higher. It has significantly reduced impairment-related crashes, deaths and injuries in those countries where it has been introduced.
We need this anti-impaired driving measure in Canada. The laws we have now do not adequately deter impaired drivers. Far too many people continue to put their lives and the lives of others at risk by driving impaired.
Random breath testing will save lives, prevent injuries and make our roads safer.
As a citizen in your riding, I am asking you to make your colleagues in Parliament aware of this important anti-impaired driving measure and to ask the Justice Committee and the Government to implement random breath testing in Canada.
Thank you for your time and for your attention to this important matter.
I support MADD Canada's call to action for Random Breath Testing – join me! Write your MP today! http://wp.me/p11YyX-1m6 Help save a life!
Random breath testing will save lives, prevent injuries and make our roads safer. As a citizen in your riding, I am asking you to support this critical anti-impaired driving measure in Canada.
For my US friends and family, you can visit the MADD US website to see what public policies they are advocating for and how you can support them in your cause.
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Natalie, sometimes the stats just make me shake my head. This works so why the hell are we not doing it? Here's another question, why do we have to call them Honorable when obviously, most of them are not. If they truly were things would be very different. This uphill battle against legislative stupidity has been going on far too long. Let's go for zero tolerance. No safe levels, because there really aren't any.
Was the crushed car your mom-in-law's? Just made my stomach sink, how horrible. I just have no other words.
Natalie, you are fighting the good fight! With this kind of persistence, it will come. But what boneheads – more interested in their politics than with the safety entrusted to them.
Yep, Kathy, it is. And that's Hubby to the right of it. NO ONE should have to look at that car and know their mother died like that. It makes me so damn mad every time I see it.
Damn straight Jenny! Brings tears to my eyes every single time.
Yes, that is the car. Horrific for sure. Even more amazing is the fact that a 6 foot 8 boy survived in the passenger seat.
Yes – here's hoping the politicians think less about the votes and more about the lives!
I definitely hope Canadian officials are following your blog and reading this. Hello?? Do you not understand that you can prevent some of this? Damn bureaucrats!!
From your lips to their ears Jenny!!! Muah!!
Natalie – This post has so much information the citizens of Canada can use to bring change about. I've spent years working on legislative change for various causes and have learned the more 'I'm in their face (in a polite way) the more often I get results.' I think it's terrific that you can send letters postage free – we don't have that luxury. Do you have a process wherein laws can be changed by 'administrative process.' I'll be posting a blog a week from this coming Monday on what's called the Federal Register here in the states. Although I often feel it's used against us more often than not–it's still a way to get laws changed and keep them from getting bogged down in our House and Senate. Additionally, individuals might tell you they'll do a letter, etc. but when the time for them to do it comes–it never happens. I'll often print out the letter so all they have to do is sign their name. I provide the envelope already addressed and stamped and they put their letter in the envelope and seal it. I then take the letter back and post it myself. That way–I know for sure that it was mailed. I know you will bring about change — sometimes it's really slow but you have the 'grit' as my grandmother use to say.
Amazing Sheri! I can't wait to read your Monday's post and then to investigate if we have anything similar. I don't think so but I will certainly check.
Also, I love your point about the letter. Genius!!! I will print off and bring bunches everywhere I go so I can get more signed and sent.
I definitely want to focus on policy changes so will be tapping into your talents for sure.
Grit…your grandmother was a smart cookie! Apple does not fall far, I see.
Thanks Natalie – another great post, as usual. a fatality from drunk driving is murder….Pure and simple. we need to legislate for that.
It is absolutely impossible to understand why RBT has not been mandated into law! Thanks for providing all of this information which makes it so easy for all everyone to speak up. I'll be sharing wherever possible and will spend the afternoon getting my e-mails, tweets, and letter off. Keep up your good work, Natalie. You are making yourself heard, there's no doubt of that!
Wonderful!!! Thank you sooo much Patricia! Your support means the world…hugs!!
Absolutely amazing work.. this just made me stop and stare.
RBT is exactly what Canada needs, the work you do makes a real difference.
Your support means the world to me and I will do my best to help you in your awareness campaign and efforts!!!
Together…we CAN make a difference!!!


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Katie earned her doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education. She also earned an MS in Education from Indiana University and a BS in Political Science from Vanderbilt University.
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Lille Player Angel Gomes Couldn't Believe It When Lionel Messi Wanted To Swap Shirts With Him
PSG knocked five goals past Les Dogues at the Stade Pierre Mauroy on Sunday evening as Mauricio Pochettino's side extended their lead at the top of Ligue 1 to 13 points.
Danilo Pereira opened the scoring on the 10-minute mark before Lille defender Sven Botman – who was heavily linked with a move to Newcastle in January – equalised before the half-hour mark.
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But things quickly went down hill for the home side. Goals from Presnel Kimpembe, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and another from Danilo gave Les Parisiens all three points.
It was a damning defeat for Lille, who have struggled this season after winning the 2020/21 Ligue 1 campaign, but on the plus side, it was a night former Manchester United man Angel Gomes will never forget.
After the final whistle, Gomes bumped into Lionel Messi in the tunnel. Initially, it looked like Gomes expected the 34-year-old to hand over the number 10 shirt and walk off.
But to his surprise, the former Barcelona man gestured that he wanted Gomes' shirt in return. It made for great viewing.
Gomes, who spent 14 years at Manchester United after joining the club aged six, joined Ligue 1 side Lille in August 2020 and was immediately loaned out to Portuguese club Boavista in a bid to pick up valuable first-team experience.
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The 21-year-old also earned his first England U21 call-up in October.
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"I don't think it was rushed, but sometimes there's decisions to be made and you have to know how to get out of your comfort zone."


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ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
No favours on the horizon from central banks for embattled savers
Recent macro-economic factors and a new political landscape mean that long neglected savers will need to wait a long time for higher interest rates from central banks.
Since the 2008 financial crisis and the unprecedented reaction of central banks in rolling out zero-interest-rate-policies (ZIRP) and Quantitative Easing (QE), it has taken almost a decade for interest rates in the US, UK and Europe to even start to recover.
In the U.S, the ZIRP and QE policies ran between December 2008 and 2015. QE was often referred to as "printing money" but involved the Federal reserve buying bonds and holding them on its balance sheet. At one point, the Fed's balance sheet stood at around $4.5 trillion which was 25% of the US GDP at the time (pre-crisis, the Fed's balance sheet was around 6% of GDP). QE has now ended and the assets on the Fed's balance sheet are being allowed to mature (with no rollover or repurchase).
On December 16, 2015 the Fed finally increased its key interest rate, the Federal Funds Rate, for the first time since June 2006. The hike was from the range 0.25% (effectively zero) to 0.5% and marked the first increase in interest rates by a major central bank since the 2008 crisis.
Janet Yellen then continued to raise US rates steadily during her term and her successor Jerome Powell continued to gradually hike rates a further four times during 2018. Even with these gradual increases, the Fed Funds rate still only stands at 2.5% which is still very low by historical standards.
However, this monetary tightening by the Fed has drawn criticism from the Whitehouse which is unprecedented in recent history.
Jerome Powell has been increasingly pressured by Trump both directly (usually via Twitter) on monetary policy and indirectly by the macroeconomic fallout from Trump's trade war with China.
Even this week, the President continued this criticism saying that he has the power to replace the Fed Chair (his initial choice) and suggested the ECB's Mario Draghi would do a better job.
Whether or not the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is influenced by this pressure, the markets are now predicting a 0.25% rate cut in July with three additional rate cuts over the next twelve months.
The latest statement from the FOMC stated that "uncertainties about the outlook have increased" which mean they will be "closely monitoring the implications of incoming information… and will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion". Where previously the U.S were the economy leading the return to normalized monetary policy, this now seems to be at a pause.
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In the U.K, Brexit uncertainty is the key macro factor which means we are unlikely to see any interest rises from the Bank of England (BoE) in the near future.
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Integrity Idol.
Casting shows have become TV channel classics. But what if they weren't looking for the best entrepreneur, the most beautiful model or the most musical singer, but the best public administration employees?" This is exactly what "Integrity Idol" is doing. The BMW Group and the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt are supporting initiator Blair Glencorse with making his concept internationally successful.
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Creator and initiator of this unique worldwide show is Blair Glencorse. The native-born Briton has worked for the World Bank, was an advisor to the current Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and is founder of the Accountability Lab. Thanks to his international experience, he is able in spite of a small budget to consistently realise sustainable and special projects for people, one of which is now "Integrity Idol". Because of his capabilities and his engagement, Glencorse was already chosen as a winner of the "BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Awards" held five years ago.
Together with the BMW Group, the BMW Foundation has now also assisted him with the production of his show in South Africa, in which Captain Vinny Pillay was voted the rainbow nation's first Integrity Idol last year. The support was helpful, among other things, in the search for media partners and in the organisation of the final event by the BMW Foundation Global Table, where leaders from all regions throughout the world develop possible solutions to the challenges of our time, Glencorse says. Moreover, as a result, he and his team also gained comprehensive access to networks and further sponsors. Further support was received from ReadyGo. In this young leaders programme implemented by the BMW Group, junior executives use their connections and their know-how to commit themselves to social concerns and greater ecological sustainability. "For more than a year now, decision makers have helped us sharpen the concept and develop a strategy", Glencorse stresses. "Especially in towns and metropolitan areas where there is a high degree of anonymity, it is important to be able to rely on public administrators. They provide the glue that holds our urban society together and serve as role models." Captain Vinny Pillay, but also the other finalists, were the finest examples of this. "They assume responsibility as nurses, firemen, doctors or teachers, thereby representing honest, incorruptible and reliable public engagement."
But what is (almost) equally as important: The programme repeatedly gives rise to diverse discussions on loyalty and responsibility in public administration. In order to send out a clear message in this respect, the finalists are nominated "integrity ambassadors". Glencorse and his team continue to support them in order to bring about substantial improvements in public administration. How fast this can be achieved still remains to be seen, but with the increasing success of Integrity Idol, Blair Glencorse has in any case laid a foundation stone. And he has shown how effectively exciting entertainment and work for the good of society in our cities and regions can be brought into line with each other.


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Rugby players in the First XV at The Grammar School at Leeds (GSAL) are hoping to repeat the national cup-winning ways they enjoyed as U15s, when they play in the final of the inaugural Champions Trophy next week.
With most team members now in the Upper Sixth at GSAL, the First XV is largely the same as the successful U15 team that lifted the Daily Mail Schools Rugby Cup at Twickenham in 2012, and a second national title would be the perfect end to their school rugby careers.
The Champions Trophy is a new U18 competition introduced by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and its schools arm, the England Rugby Football Schools Union (ERFSU). This year's pilot involved 32 teams from England's top rugby playing schools and the competition is completed in the autumn term, freeing up talented players to fulfil playing commitments for club, academy and country in the new year.
The team booked their place in the Champions Trophy final after an exciting 29-15 semi-final victory played at GSAL against Barnard Castle School. The final will be played at Allianz Park, the new home of Saracens Rugby Club, on 26 November against Millfield School.
Captain Sam Ward said: "Considering the muddy conditions we had a good game in the semi-final. Our impressive defence in the second half kept them from scoring again until the very end.


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Wolfdietrich Fischer (* 25. März 1928 in Nürnberg; † 27. Mai 2013 in Erlangen) war ein deutscher Arabist.

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Nach dem Abitur am Melanchthon-Gymnasium Nürnberg 1947 studierte Fischer Semitische Philologie, Islamwissenschaft und Turkologie an den Universitäten zu Erlangen und München. Sein hauptsächlicher akademischer Lehrer war der Arabist Hans Wehr (1909–1981), bei dem er 1953 in Erlangen auch mit der Dissertation Die demonstrativen Bildungen der neurabischen Dialekte promovierte.

Danach hatte Fischer zwei wissenschaftliche Assistentenstellen inne, 1954–1957 beim Orientalisten Hellmut Ritter (1892–1971) in Frankfurt am Main und 1957–1963 bei seinem Doktorvater Hans Wehr in Münster. Dort habilitierte er 1963 in den Fächern Islamwissenschaft und Semitische Philologie mit der Habilitationsschrift Farb- und Formbezeichnungen in der Sprache der altarabischen Dichtung.

Im Jahre 1964 schließlich folgte er dem Ruf an den Lehrstuhl für Orientalische Philologie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, den er bis zu seiner Emeritierung 1997 innehatte. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt war die arabische Sprachwissenschaft und die klassisch-arabische Literatur sowie deren Rezeption im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Fischer war ab 1986 Vorsitzender der Rückert-Gesellschaft e. V. in Schweinfurt ab 1993 Ehrenmitglied der Vereinigung der Freunde und Förderer des Instituts für Fremdsprachen und Auslandskunde bei der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg e. V.

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 Wilfried Kürschner (Hrsg.): Linguisten-Handbuch. Biographische und bibliographische Daten deutschsprachiger Sprachwissenschaftlerinnen und Sprachwissenschaftler der Gegenwart. Band 1: A–L. Tübingen 1994. ISBN 3-8233-5000-5. S. 235.

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Central Glendale's old Thunderbird School of Global Management campus next year will get a new tenant, Arizona Christian University.
The private university made the announcement Wednesday morning.
The Thunderbird school, which became a part of Arizona State University in 2014, moved to downtown Phoenix this year, leaving behind a 140-acre campus in the middle of Glendale.
Arizona Christian cut a land deal with ASU — it gave ASU its current campus on Cactus Road near 24th Street in exchange for a portion of the Thunderbird campus on 59th Avenue and Greenway Road.
Arizona Christian had been evaluating options for a new campus that would offer improved academic and sports facilities and more space for classrooms and on-campus housing, Arizona Christian said in a written statement.
"When ASU moved the Thunderbird campus downtown, a great opportunity was presented," the statement said.
Arizona Christian was founded in 1960 as Southwestern Conservative Bible College, but changed its name in 2011 to reflect its evolution from a small Bible college to a Christian liberal arts university. Len Munsil, who was the Republican nominee for governor in 2006, is president of Arizona Christian.
The university is "looking forward to bringing this campus back to life" in the 2019-2020 school year, according to a university statement.


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CXOtoday News Desk 2 years ago
Consumers today are becoming increasingly concerned about data security and privacy as a result of the countless breaches that have made news headlines over the past few years. The need for establishing digital trust is on the rise.
In response to this growing demand for digital trust, many companies have made efforts to improve the user experience while also enhancing security, data privacy and fraud detection.
A new research from Unisys Corporation found that IT professionals reported three incidents on average where sensitive information had been lost last year, with some respondents reporting 11 losses for the year. Respondents also reported an average of nine incidents per month where they had to address highly severe security issues. The survey finds broad recognition of the need to address security challenges to enable digital transformation and points to the need for "zero trust" models for cybersecurity.
The survey, conducted by information insights company Information Services Group (ISG), asked over 400 enterprise IT professionals in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific to assess their security operations. The findings illustrate high levels of awareness among respondents of their challenges as well as the need to establish digital trust with their customers as they transform their businesses to cloud and mobile platforms.
As a result of these findings, ISG is forecasting that 60 percent of businesses globally will suffer a major service failure due to the new security issues introduced by shifting workloads to the cloud and enabling mobile and remote employees. The research indicates that between 2016 and 2020, on-premises workloads will decline from 55 percent to 20 percent of all workloads.
To address the challenges associated with digital trust, researchers recommend the adoption of the "zero trust" model – an approach to security that recognizes threats emanate not only from outside the perimeter, but also from malicious insiders within trusted zones.
The zero trust approach of granting least privileged access to all users requires a combination of microsegmentation and security services such as security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint protection and risk assessment, eliminating the need to buy new gear, rip and replace or add complexity to an already unwieldy architecture.
"In the era of digital transformation, security professionals recognize that digital trust is table stakes – a requirement that, if not met and delivered as part of the experience for stakeholders of the enterprise's value chain, will upend organizations everywhere," said Doug Saylors, research director, ISG. "Enterprises that are first to adopt and leverage digital trust fabrics will realize competitive advantages driven by combinations of deeper customer intimacy, operational excellence and product leadership."
The survey showed that IT professionals recognize the need to address threats coming from outside their enterprises as well as the need to create security-focused cultures within them.
When asked to choose from among 12 IT security challenges at their enterprises, the top challenge was "external threats," selected by 43 percent of respondents. It was followed by security challenges related to 24×7 operations (selected by 36 percent) and challenges related to legacy technologies (selected by 34 percent).
"Trust in digital business is earned during every digital interaction with the enterprise," said Tom Patterson, chief trust officer at Unisys. "This means establishing strong bonds of trust throughout their ecosystems of employees, partners, suppliers and customers. By operating resistant and resilient systems, establishing trusted identities, and focusing passionately on client success, it is possible to make trust your critical success factor."
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Enlarged driveway width, 6 foot replaced, water diverting curbing installed.
Bob was very quick to respond to request for bid. Appeared honest upon first contact. Initial work was less than perfect & not completed. Changes to the initial plan were made on the fly. was told that "our goal" would be met. Had to call several times to get him back to finish. The last part was of a poorer quality than the first. Water diversion was not achieved.


Hot on the heels of letter no.10 here we are again. There has been so much travelling I had to break the letters up a bit-so we continue our journey heading on north.
Any of you who on our travels have invited us to stay, BE WARNED we could take you up on it! We contacted Lorry and Isabelle who we had met in Mexico on our Copper Canyon trip. They live in a place called Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast, a peninsula just across the water from Vancouver. They really looked after us well showing us around their locality by car, foot and even in their plane. I wasn't nervous at all in Lorry's 4 seater. The views were amazing. Izzy is also a great cook so we had some fabulous home cooking and she also sent us away with delicious homemade pickled beetroot and jams. We also took the opportunity to prepare for the next stage of our trip and another highlight. We took a cruise up Alaska's inside passage to the Hubbard Glacier. Mike had seen the trip advertised in a US Sunday paper and duly booked it over the phone. When we arrived at the cruise terminal in Vancouver we thought we had hit a setback when our names weren't on the manifest. After about half an hour the situation was resolved, our names had suffered from Chinese whispers. Our new names were M Kinston and A Danzie.
We introduced ourselves to the captain at the first opportunity and congratulated him on his recent promotion. He was only 36 and had been a captain for just 3 weeks.
Whist we were away the semi finals of the European cup were staged. This coincided with a stop at Juneau, the capital of Alaska. Watching the audience was more entertaining than the match as the bar was filled with our ship's crew. The officers were mainly Greek and other crew were strongly made up of Eastern Europeans who provided the fan base for the Czech Republic. Well, what a laugh when the game came to its ultimate conclusion, there was our highly esteemed and professional young captain being danced around on the shoulders of a fellow officer! He was so handsome he could have got away with anything as far as I was concerned. Wonder what the celebrations were like on the bridge the following Sunday? Opa!
Other stops on the route were Ketchikan, the 4th largest city, and Sitka the old Russian Capital of Alaska, complete with Russian Cathedral. We also sailed right up to the Hubbard Glacier. Usually the ships stop about 2 miles away from the glacier but we were much closer than that. Perhaps a side effect of having a young ambitious captain in charge. We spent two hours in front of the glacier; it was really cold and the most amazing different shades of blue. At various intervals huge chunks of ice fell off the glacier into the water, this is called ice carving. The resulting chunks of ice in the water made popping sounds like Rice Crispies in milk. This is the noise made by oxygen being released from the ice into the water.
The scenery consisted of fjords and tree covered islands. Each place we stopped at is called a city but in reality nowhere was anywhere near the size of Cromer. We also ate and drank copious amounts as is a cruising tradition. To give you an idea of how much food is provided the ship left Vancouver with over 24, 000 lbs beef on board. That's for a week for nearly 2000 passengers and just under 1000 crew. The food tasted excellent and was also very well presented. One day we were having lunch in the service restaurant when an American lady approached our table. 'Oh, haven't you got great hair, may I take a picture?' I knew full well she wasn't referring to my hair (ref. newsletter no.10.) and turned to look at Mike. He was of course BEAMING at this and was more than happy for her to take several photographs. This was all in aid of her husband so that he could show the barber how to get his haircut in a style that his wife would like.
We had a wonderful time and made some new friends whilst at sea. You can see how far we went on the map below. It was a great way to see a little bit of Alaska that would have taken weeks to get to by road. Ketchikan for example is only accessible by sea or the air.
On our return to Vancouver we went straight back and rejoined the motor home safe and sound in Gibsons. After a couple of days we headed back across to Vancouver and made preparations for our next visitor, my middle sister Catherine. She arrived on a Thursday and our plan was to spend some time in Vancouver and then cross over to Vancouver Island after the weekend when we thought there would be less queuing for the ferry.
We undertook a treetops walk along elevated walkways through the Douglas pine trees in Capilano Park. In order to get there we had to cross the Capilano river gorge on the Capilano Suspension Bridge a height of 70 metres and a span of 140 metres. Incidentally the bridge consisted of two cables and a wooden plank floor. We didn't dare let go of the cables as it was swinging a lot with all the people on it. That evening we took an ordinary bus and a sea bus to Gastown. Whilst on our way we saw the number 6 bus heading to a destination called Davie. Proud to see a bus with our name on it we had to take a picture of it. We have since seen an old guide book which states that Davie Street has 'a lot of women looking for action after dark'. We don't know if Davie Street has cleaned up its act or not but the only action we were after was a nice meal (we had an Indian). Afterwards we watched the steam powered clock give a Big Ben blast at 8.00pm through its steam whistle.
We liked the sound of Harrison Hot Springs just east of Vancouver for the weekend but unfortunately it wasn't as we'd imagined so we headed on to a Sasquatch Provincial Park near another lake just north. We circumnavigated the lake on a very pleasant walk through the forest the only negative being the enormous mosquitoes.
After the weekend we headed across the water to Vancouver Island. A couple of porpoises accompanied us along the way, playing in the ferry's wake. We visited the 60 foot high Elk falls near Campbell River. We had planned on swimming in the river but worried that we might get swept downstream we decided to go swimming at nearby Loveland Bay Provincial Park instead. Our pitch was right next to the lake and we had steps to our own private beach. Catherine kindly inflated our rubber dinghy for us so we had little rowing trips out on the lake. We really enjoyed a couple of nights there just relaxing in the sunshine and enjoying the idyllic setting.
We had one night in the capital Victoria and then headed north along the west coast to look at the pacific side. This was windier and more rugged. Catherine's final night was spent overlooking a small river estuary and the sea on land belonging to a logging company. We enjoyed watching a lone seal fishing in the water as well as the birds.
After Catherine left we headed north to the trendy little ski town of Whistler and then through more stunning countryside into the desert and a town called Kamloops where we are at the moment.


Roads in Himachal Pradesh are meant for all terrain. Important places in Himachal Pradesh are well connected through roadways. Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh is also very well connected through roadways. Abundant numbers of buses run within Shimla District and also in the surrounding areas of Shimla. Taxi services are also available in Shimla to travel within the district and also for travel within the state as well as outside the state.
Road journey is enjoyable for it offers wonderful landscapes for the travelers. The buses and taxis are comfortable and they are quite economical for the travelers.
Various important places of Shimla are connected through some important roads and the most important of them is the Mall Road. The Mall Road has many important hotels, restaurants, shops and other buildings and land marks along it. Another important road is the Chaura Maidan Road that can be reached easily from the railway station. Circular Road is also there which converges with Ridge-Sanjauli Road. The Ridge and the Mall, these two roads converge at the Scandal Point, a famous tourist spot of Shimla. The Kali Bari Road leads to the Kali Bari Temple Shimla. The Jakhoo Road bifurcates into two roads, the Jakhoo Road and the Jakhoo-Richmont Road.
The Jakhoo Road leads to the famous Jakhoo Temple of Shimla. Cart Road is another important road of Shimla. Annandale Forest Road leads to the Annandale area of Shimla, a famous picnic spot, sports activity ground and important point for nature watch in Shimla.


and drew us to a terrifying conclusion.
Tree! ! River! ! Man! ! Woman! !
Catch them before they have departed.
when they were original, perfect, Ours.
Snake! Body! God! Body! Snake! Body!
Adam, come near to me, I have something to show you.
that no companionship could draw us from.
our hands could touch, but not feel.
cut in three between our lines of division.
and make us worm inside his belly as we contained ourselves in earthen lives.
knowing and fearing nothing of wrongdoing, oh blessed state!
All was a joyous and brilliant sharing of light and breath and words.
around Ourself (a tear drops from my eye upon remembrance of that word: 'Ourself') .
I seem to do almost entirely that, now.
conflicting within our hearts at every reach.
and I think we do not need to feel ashamed anymore.
and needed only to be watered by unerring love.
for these flowers to grow within.
We will learn the patience of the seasons.
and I can not help but see their causes in myself.
and their voice sounds in the nerves of my heart!
Oh, it is a love!
when it's rightful moment comes.
of our once perfect union.
will suffer and war and fear.
and yet, somehow, his words are hewn by Love.
and his words will draw forth the elements and conditions of a new world.
behind every slip and fall we make.
OUTSTANDING! Great flow of honest feeling in this, love, passion, brutality, spirituality. Grand use of imagery and metaphor. Good work poet. These polarities arise and the flow moves from love to fear to hate to love again. As a wrestling of the forces of emotion attached to the forces of good and evil. Perhaps its the subject of this piece which can only exist within the context. There is something Kaballah in the inspiration of 'Adam' sensing the coming of a messiah and it could be Typhon breaking forth from the side of his mother. Why? Because before the apostles there was only the Tora. Is this insight or merely the fact of the two books being known? This is a very thought provoking piece.


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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British, Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1780
Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British, after Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, 1723–1792, British, Published by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British, Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1780, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, B1970.3.232
Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
after Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, 1723–1792, British
Published by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Sheet: 20 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches (52.7 x 41.9 cm), Plate: 19 x 15 inches (48.3 x 38.1 cm), and Image: 18 x 15 inches (45.7 x 38.1 cm)
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist


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Sovereign guarantees: Unjust burden on people
Bulatlat Contributors October 10, 2015 Maynilad Water Services Inc
By Satur C. Ocampo
At Ground Level | The Philippine Star
At the House of Representatives plenary deliberations on the proposed 2016 General Appropriations Act (national budget) last Monday, two interesting revelations involving investment incentives and wrongful use of public funds were drawn out through assiduous interpellation.
One: Both Maynilad Water Services Inc. and Manila Water Co. Inc. – the concessionaires, respectively, of the west and east sections of the privatized MWSS (Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage Authority) – have asked the government to reimburse their alleged losses in operating the utility under a so-called sovereign guarantee. Maynilad wants P3.5 billion; Manila Water, P70 billion.
There are at least 17 firms, mostly foreign-owned or joint ventures with Filipino firms, that have similar sovereign guarantees in their contracts to undertake government projects. One of these is Universal LRT Corp. Ltd., the concessionaire/contractor for the MRT 7.
Earlier projects covered by sovereign guarantee are: the 1998 Mindanao coal-fired power plant undertaken by San Roque Power Corp., with the consortium of Marubeni Corp., Sithe Philippines Holdings, and Italia-Thai Development Public Co. Ltd.; and the 1999 Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan power plant, contracted by Industrias Metalurgicas Pescamona S.A. or IMPSA.
Two: At least three foreign companies operating in export processing zones are privileged to have gotten the government to guarantee the payment of their electricity consumption bills, under an Industrial Competitiveness Fund authorized by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The firms and their electricity bills to be paid by the government in the 2016 budget are: Texas Instruments, P2.105 billion; Hanjin Heavy Industries, P1.25 billion; and Phoenix Semiconductor Phils. Corp., P1.45 billion.
These disclosures, among others, were drawn out by Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares, senior deputy minority leader, from Rep. Gabriel Quisumbing of Cebu, sponsor of the finance department proposal.
Colmenares (who conducted his thorough interpellation in conversational Pilipino, mind you) started with the Maynilad case. He cited the fact that the company sought to collect from its water-using customers the equivalent of its income tax payment. The customers opposed the imposition before the MWSS, which sided with them and refused to approve it.
Maynilad thus sought recourse to the government's sovereign guarantee. It wrote to Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima on February 20, seeking reimbursement of its alleged monthly loss of P208 million from January 1, 2013 to January 1, 2015. Acting promptly, Purisima recommended to President Aquino an outlay of P5 billion for the reimbursement. The amount was reduced to P3.5 billion after Maynilad submitted, on March 9, detailed lower monthly-loss figures.
The P3.5 billion is to be drawn from the Risk Management Fund under the proposed 2016 budget. To forestall the payment that could prejudice the people's interest, Colmenares and fellow Bayan Muna party-list representative Carlos Zarate have petitioned the Supreme Court to adjudicate the issue.
In his interpellation, Colmenares questioned the alacrity with which Purisima set aside the MWSS decision upholding the water-users' opposition to Maynilad's scheme to make them shoulder the payment of its income tax. He asked: "Doesn't Purisima's stance pre-empt the due-process right of the people to object to the onerously increased rate they are being required to pay?"
What is worse, Colmenares pointed out, should the government compensate Maynilad for its claimed losses, not only its customers in Metro Manila would shoulder the burden but the entire Filipino people, because the payment would come from public funds.
Moving on to a related issue, Colmenares asked what was the finance department's stand vis-à-vis his pending bill which seeks to remove the value-added tax on "system loss" (the cost of electricity lost through leakages or illegal connections), which Meralco customers are also made to pay for.
Reply: the DoF is opposed to all measures that would cut government revenue; besides, the VAT on system loss "is a particularly complex issue" that dropping it could lead to "other loopholes in the tax collection system… and disrupt the revenue chain." That's gobbledygook the people can't comprehend, Colmenares riposted. He asked how much tax revenue would be foregone if the VAT on system loss were removed. Reply: P300 million.
Again Colmenares raised the issue of justice: Whereas the government has committed to pay the electricity bills of giant firms like Texas Instruments, Hanjin, and Phoenix Semiconductors – totalling P4.7 billion in 2016 – it cannot cede P300 million in VAT charges to the electricity-consuming public.
To Quisumbing's assertion that it's the DoF's primary mandate to raise revenues on behalf of the government, Colmenares retorted:
"If the mandate of the DoF, and I am sure the government's mandate, is to raise revenues, why do we pay P2.1 billion to Texas Instruments…P1.25 billion to Hanjin, and P1.4 billion to Phoenix? Why are we paying P3.5 billion to Maynilad…and P70 billion to Manila Water? Why are we paying P7.5 billion to LRT1?" He added:
"Bakit bigay kayo nang bigay sa mayayamang mga kumpanya pero singil naman kayo nang singil sa mahihirap na taumbayan?"
Appealing to the entire House membership, Colmenares said: "I hope our colleagues are listening. I really hope that the House will overrule the objection of the DoF. Let's assert our right to have the VAT removed from the price of electricity. That's all we're asking, for now."
That episode in the House budget deliberations points up the need to seriously review the government's policy on liberally granting such types of incentives. Supposedly, they attract foreign investments, but it's clear that they gravely prejudice public interest.
E-mail: satur.ocampo@gmail.com
Published in The Philippine Star


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Most people skip toner as they believe that skin is clean enough after cleansing, but most of the time, cleansing alone isn't sufficient. The purpose of toners is to clean off leftover grime and impurities that your daily cleanser failed to remove. It also helps to bring back the pH level to skin's naturally acidic pH level after cleansing, as most cleansers are alkaline. When choosing a toner for acne-prone skin, look out for ingredients like salicylic acid, tea tree oil or witch hazel, which will help to lift dead skin cells, remove excess sebum and reduce oil production.
One of my recent favorite toners for acne-prone skin is the Etude House AC Clean Up Toner, which I will be doing a review today. It is a revamped version of my all-time favorite toner, AC Clinic Daily Toner.
Formulated with salicylic acid, tea tree oil and madecassoside, Etude House AC Clean Up Toner moisturizes and soothes red, irritated acne skin. It is non-comedogenic tested.
Pimples form when your pores are clogged, so make sure you cleanse your face well. Today, I will be sharing my thoughts on Etude House AC Clean Up Daily Cleansing Foam, which is a revamped version of my all-time favorite facial cleanser, AC Clinic Daily Acne Foam Cleanser.
Without further ado, let's begin with the review!
Formulated with salicylic acid, madecassoside and tea tree oil, Etude House AC Clean Up Daily Cleansing Foam fights against acne, soothes the skin and removes impurities without aggravating the skin. It is non-comedogenic tested.
Makeup artists always emphasize the use of a good primer to create a flawless and even base before the application of foundation/bb cream. So today, I will be sharing my thoughts on Etude House Precious Mineral Magic Any Cushion, which is a 6-in-1 almighty color correcting primer that can be worn alone or under foundation/bb cream: Moisturizing + Whitening + Anti-Aging + Sunscreen (SPF 34 / PA++) + Foundation + Cooling.
- Magic Pink smoothes out and brightens pale skin into a healthy and vibrant skin.
- Magic Mint covers blemishes and neutralizes redness for an even-looking complexion.
- Magic Peach brightens dull complexion to make it appear even and refined.
- Magic Lavender balances dull and yellowish skin into a natural bright complexion.
I'm sure many of you have heard about this product over the years. Some of you may have tried it already. For those who haven't and are interested in Magic Mint, I hope my review provides you with the information you need.
Let's begin with the review, shall we?
As I have acne-prone skin and lots of capillaries, I got it in Magic Mint, which is for redness. Ideal for acne-prone and easily irritated skin.
Today, I'll be doing a quick review on Etude House All Finish Line Remover Stick. It's a portable eye makeup corrector stick that precisely corrects smudges, flaking or other makeup mistakes easily. It removes even waterproof makeup. Infused with olive leaf, rosehip seed, rice and green tea extracts, it helps to moisturize skin and protect delicate areas around the eyes and mouth.
Etude House AC Clean Up Mild Concealer contains Salicylic Acid, Tea Tree Oil and Madecassoside that fight against acne, soothe blemished skin and conceal imperfections all at the same time. It is non-comedogenic.
Dr. Jart+ Ctrl-A Spot Cover is a dual functioning concealer with whitening and anti-wrinkle properties specially designed for sensitive, acne-prone skin. It soothes and protects skin while concealing imperfections.
The main ingredient of Dr. Jart+ Ctrl-A line is AC-Fensine that kills acne bacteria and strengthens skin's immune system, thereby treating and preventing acne.
It is non-comedogenic and has a 10-FREE system — Free of talc, parabens, alcohol, pigment, phthalate, mineral oil, benzophenone, petroleum, triethanolamine and fragrance.
It is non-comedogenic, plus it has SPF 50+ PA+++ that provides skin with broad spectrum protection against harmful UV rays.
P.S. I believe this is a revamped version of the long discontinued AC Clinic Sun BB.
Etude House AC Clean Up Pink Powder Mask is a wash-off type mask that contains calamine and sulfur, which have antibacterial effects as well as helps to control sebum and remove dead skin cells. It also contains Kaolin clay which acts as a cleansing agent that draws out excess sebum and impurities from your pores. This mask not only helps to purify your pores and regulate sebum, it also soothes inflammation and provides moisture to keep your skin balanced (not overly dry or oily).
Fun Fact: This is a revamped version (new packaging + improved formula) of the long discontinued AC Clinic Pink Powder Clay Mask.
Today, I'm going to do a quick review on Laneige Two Tone Lip Bar. This product has been on the market for some time, and I'm sure some of you may have tried it already. Anyway, I'm going to share my thoughts on it. Hope it will be useful to those who have yet to try it and are interested in getting one. So, let's jump right into the review!
Laneige Two Tone Lip Bar offers a combination of two colors in one lipstick for a perfect gradient lips. It is formulated with pure pigment technology to ensure a vivid color pay-off, and has a soft, moisturizing texture that glides onto the lips smoothly.
Several months ago, I published a post about "Understanding The Types Of Acne". In today's post, I will be addressing acne scars. I'm going to simply explain what causes acne scars, the types of acne scars, as well as how you can treat and prevent them.
Without any delay, let's get right into the topic. First, let's identify the types of acne scars.
P.S. I would like to thank my bestie for providing her pitted scars pictures and allowing me to use them in my blog.
Hello folks~! Today I'm sharing "What's In My Bag". Well, I did this last year and some of you requested for 2016 Edition. So here it is!
Pimples usually appear on different parts of your face. Do you know the location of your acne can be an indication of what's going on inside your body? According to Chinese Face Mapping, it actually reflects the health of different organ systems.
Hands up if you're one of those who likes to pop pimples. I understand the feeling of satisfaction when you get all the pus out, but do you know popping zits can cause skin injury and may even lead to permanent scarring? If you didn't know, it's not too late to know it now. So instead of forcefully squeezing your pimples with your fingers, try 3M NEXCARE ACNE PATCH!
3M Nexcare Acne Patch is made of a special material called hydrocolloid that acts like a sponge to absorb the oily secretion, fluid or pus from pimple. The patch is waterproof yet breathable, and it acts as a layer of protection over the pimple to reduce hand contact and prevent infection.
It comes in different packages ranging from 7 patches to 44 patches, as well as in different sizes. It is also available in various shapes — round, square, heart and star.
Many of you already know that I am an acne sufferer and had been through really bad acne before. For those who are new to my blog, you can find out more by reading "My Acne Story".
And if you have been following my blog, you might already know that my acne flared up again in October last year. Back then, I chanced upon "Kinohimitsu Clear Activ" and having a positive experience with their eye care supplement — "EyeBright", I decided to give it a try.
I know I promised to write a review after I finished the second box, but I decided to try it for a few more months before I write about it. [...] And here's the long-awaited review!
Kinohimitsu Clear Activ is a supplement designed to provide internal defence against breakouts and perfectly balance oil secretion, giving the most natural and effective solution to regain your clear and smooth skin.
The combination of Milk Protein Peptide, Selenium and Vitamin E supports the body's ability to reduce acne and inflammation.
It's been a long while since I last updated this space and I sincerely apologize for the long hiatus, as well as for not replying to email and ask.fm questions that you guys wrote to me.
By the way, those who had sent me a message via LINE and have yet to receive a reply, please kindly re-send your message. P/S: I lost all the data (chat history etc.).


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Goodman: America's 11th Commandment: 'Thou shalt not bore'
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BLANK FROM PRINT: Adam Goodman, national Republican media consultant
By Adam Goodman, Times correspondent
Published May 8 2018
Updated May 9 2018
In the chaos and controversy that is America today, "thou shalt not bore" has become the rallying cry.
So it's not surprising that when Kanye West headed south by saying slavery was a "choice," the media saw it as a boredom-breaker and howled as if on cue. Just in case that wasn't enough to keep the audience mesmerized, Kanye doubled down by professing to be a soulmate of President Donald Trump. For both, mission accomplished.
Yet lost amid all the clamor, Saturday Night Live understood it best: They transformed this controversy into entertainment with a comedic sketch suggesting life can't go on without reveling one more time in the shock of it all.
That's because a majority of Americans now respond to an 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt not bore." This credo may defile faith and threaten virtue, but it's legitimized every day by one reality — as long as it commands a large and attentive audience, the show goes on.
There's a Scrabble-like word to describe this new American moodiness — "controversiality" — defined alternately as an expression of opposing views, a war of words, or a prolonged and heated focus on something that draws battle lines and hardens opinions. We are attracted to it, controlled by it, and feed off of it while still condemning it.
The difference today, versus years past, is who practices and perfects it. They are provocateurs who tweet by the minute and speak without limits. They deem the short game the only game, without regard to consequence or history. They use controversy as a marketing tool, not as a pathway to enlightenment.
This is not to suggest that history is shorn of champions who held inexplicable opinions that bother us to this day.
Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest peace activists in history, once called black South Africans "uncivilized, troublesome, very dirty … like animals." Thomas Jefferson, America's most esteemed Founding Father, proclaimed native Americans "justified their (own) extermination."
John Lennon, a musical prophet for generations, confessed he "used to be cruel to women; I was a hitter." Bob Marley once justified raping his spouse with a cavalier "you're my wife and you're supposed to." And Winston Churchill, who urged England on through its darkest days, played to a darker side by remarking, "Keep England White is a good slogan."
These words are hard to hear coming from larger-than-life social and political icons, but they were largely overcome by lifetimes of meaning and by a more forgiving world — a time when honor wasn't stained by a 10-second video grab or 20-word social media post.
Today, we live in a world of whirlwinds, where controversy is part of every story and every move. Where the president should be impeached before the truth is known. Where Robert Mueller, a decorated war hero and long-time FBI director, apparently should be fired as special counsel before his investigation is complete. Where women making allegations of unthinkable harassment are withered by unrelenting questions about their own character. Where House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and House Speaker Paul Ryan are criticized just for getting up in the morning.
This is happening because we, the people, allow it and encourage it. It fuels rage and ratings. It is instantly contemptuous but insanely captivating. We live in the moment, where we're all too willing to forgo value judgments as long as we are entertained. As a great cartoonist in an earlier age once observed, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
Now there are times when controversy is good, especially when it stirs passion and motivates action long overdue. To wit: a public demonstration that leads to the end of racial inequality, or a boycott that incites better behavior by one nation among the world of nations, or a march by 17-year old perennials that breeds calls for school safety and safer gun laws.
I'm all for the 11th Commandment as long as it bears this asterisk: hallow boredom whenever it helps quell the bedlam, whenever it means the silly still makes room for the serious, whenever it allows for reflection as much as it does reaction.
Walt Whitman once said, "I loaf to invite the soul."
Has there ever been a better time for that than now?
Adam Goodman is a national Republican media consultant based in St. Petersburg and the first Edward R. Murrow Fellow at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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Sometimes, the secret of entertaining friends is knowing how to put on a great show.
In 1969, when my wife and I were first married, we dashed out to buy a few things to make the little cottage we were renting feel more like a home. We didn't have much money to spend because we were both still college students, and we didn't need to buy much in any case since I would be graduating in less than a year and we would be moving to who-knows-where. But still, we were newlyweds, and we wanted to feel as if we were making a home for ourselves.
When we explained our situation at the store, the saleslady knew just what we were talking about. She led us back to the kitchenware section.
She pulled a Corelle glass plate off the shelf, which looked as close to fine china as we ever hoped to get. But then she did a surprising thing — she held it out at arm's length and dropped it on the floor, where it clattered impressively but didn't break. Oh, the wonders of modern science!
We bought two of the plates — our entire family dinner service. They cost more than paper plates would have cost us, but hey, we were making a new life together here, and we wanted to feel as if we were starting out on the right unbreakable foot.
When we got home from our shopping trip we found a delightful surprise — our old friend George Pond was sitting on the stoop. He had been a classmate before he left school a year ago, and it was the first time my wife and I would get to see him as a new-married couple.
George was a child-eyed hippie type who met every marvel of life with a hearty "Far out!" And so, wanting to share with him the far-out marvels of Corelle-ware, I brought him into the kitchen and said: "Hey, George, check this out!" And then, holding one of the plates out at arm's length, I dropped it to the floor.
George's long-ago comment came back to me just a few weeks ago when my old buddies Bill and Mike flew in from frigid Chicago to spend a few January days with my wife and me here in sunny Naples. They have come to visit before, so we didn't have to put on a grand tour or anything. They were happy just to sit on the lanai in shorts and T-shirts, enjoying the sun and the balmy breezes as we worked crossword puzzles together. And at night, it was enough for us just to chat on the lanai and watch Orion march across the black sky with a glass of good Irish whiskey in hand (in our hand, that is, not Orion's).
But then, on their last night visiting, something happened that had never happened before.
As Bill reached down to pick up his whiskey glass, a sudden movement startled us. It was a green tree frog that had been sitting right next to Bill's drink. (Licking condensation from the glass? Waiting for his chance to get a word in?) Not wanting to be picked up by mistake and raised to anybody's lips, the frog leaped away — right through the open door from the lanai into the house!
A Keystone-Kops chase ensued, with three well-lathered old geezers chasing an agile frog through the kitchen (three of the four participants hoping not to croak from the effort), punctuated by peals of laughter from my wife. The sticky-toed frog leaped from floor, to chair, to table, and finally to the slider glass before we could scoop him off the pane into Bill's hat and bring him back outside.
They left the following day, just in time for us to host more old friends at our house — Jim and Beth, who come to visit us each year from Arizona (state motto: "Well, yeah, but it's a dry heat!") in hopes that they might see a tropical Florida thunderstorm or two.
They weren't disappointed, because it was pouring when we picked them up at the airport, one of the few hearty cloudbursts of our long dry season this winter. But when the sun broke out for the rest of their stay, Beth wanted to spend some time at the beach.
We chose Lowdermilk Park for our beach visit, and when we pulled into the lot, we watched a film crew haul TV cameras from a van in the parking space right next to us.
A consummate professional, he smiled at my lame diva joke and pointed to the water, where a 200-foot barge sat shoal-grounded just off the beach, loaded with boulders bound for Doctors Pass. Sunbathers sat in folding chairs capturing the scene on their cell phones — because, after all, that's why you come to sunny Southwest Florida, isn't it? To go home with videos of barges?
Well, sure. Because the secret of entertaining friends is knowing how to put on a great show, isn't it?


Cool trucks bring out the kid in all of us. Each year, West Chester flings open the garage doors and shares with the community all of the cool trucks that serve our community every day.
Fire trucks, police vehicles, snow plows, military vehicles, helicopters, rescue boats and more line the streets on The Square @ Union Centre. Feel free to climb behind the wheel, sit in the shovel of the backhoe, and speak with the men and women who operate the equipment essential to community operations.
This event is completely free. Plan to spend a couple hours and then enjoy lunch at a nearby restaurant.
Bring your vehicle and join us for this great event! Businesses, organizations and groups interested in participating should have a unique vehicle to showcase. All vehicles must be accompanied by a person who can talk about the vehicle.